Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying – Fishing – Illuminated – e.g. – luminous
Patent
1991-10-07
1992-06-30
Seidel, Richard K.
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
Fishing
Illuminated, e.g., luminous
43 175, 43 16, A01K 8501, A01K 7502
Patent
active
051251817
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to a fish strike detector assembly for attachment to a fishing rod. The assembly includes an electrical circuit to detect and indicate a fish strike. The circuit includes a tilt switch having a frame with two contacts on the frame and having a bridging element moving by gravity and carried by the frame toward and away from electrical contact with the contacts as the frame is tilted in each of two directions. A delay circuit may be electrically coupled to the tilt switch to eliminate false alarms due to waves or boat rocking. An indicator is electrically coupled to the delay switch. A power supply is electrically coupled to the tilt switch in the circuit providing electrical power to the circuit. A rod clamp directly mounts the assembly securely to the fishing rod. The rod clamp has a first part and a second part fastened together near a first end of each. Each part has near a second end a raised portion on an inner surface. The second part also has a grooved portion on the inner surface. The first part and the second part are positioned such that the inner surface of the first part faces the inner surface of the second part. A fishing rod is inserted and fixedly held therebetween by compression forces exerted by the first and second parts. A housing having a base plate is pivotally attached near a center region to the rod clamp, substantially against the first part of the rod clamp, by a pivot device. The housing provides a mounting surface for mounting the electrical circuit and is capable of being rotated about the pivot device so as to provide adjustable leveling for the tilt switch.
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Mah Chuck Y.
Seidel Richard K.
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